Install VMware Tools on Nested ESXi with ShortURL

One of the most useful VMware Flings of all time has just come out, VMware Tools for Nested ESXi. Nested ESXi is running ESXi within ESXi or another VMware hypervisor. Fusion, Workstation and maybe Player support nesting ESXi.

We all know these few facts:

VMware Tools makes VMs run better

Nested ESXi isn’t production-ready

Nested ESXi is a great lab/test technique

In the Fling page, it has option 2 listed to run the .VIB (an installable module on an ESXi host) from directly downloading it from VMware.com. This is “loosely” analogous to the whole OVA vs. OVF discussion, a pointer vs. full install locally.